On Windows, file names are recorded case-sensitively, but looked up case-insensitively. Therefore, it is possible to switch to a directory by using incorrect case, e.g. cd documentation will still get you into the Documentation subdirectory. In Powershell, doing so will however report the current directory with the specified spelling rather than the one recorded on disk, and Git will get confused. To remedy that, we fixed this in Git for Windows more than three years ago, and needed only a small fix a couple of months later to accommodate for the diverse scenarios encountered by the many Git for Windows users. Not only to keep the story closer to what happened historically, but also to make it easier to follow, I refrained from squashing these two patches. Side note: the second patch is technically not battle-tested for that long: it uses an API function that requires Windows Vista or later, and we only recently started to clean up Git for Windows' code to drop fallbacks for Windows XP. Read: this code used to load the GetFinalPathNameByHandle() function dynamically, and that is the only difference to the code that has been "battle-tested" for close to three years. Anton Serbulov (1): mingw: fix getcwd when the parent directory cannot be queried Johannes Schindelin (1): mingw: ensure `getcwd()` reports the correct case compat/mingw.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) base-commit: c4df23f7927d8d00e666a3c8d1b3375f1dc8a3c1 Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tags/pr-54%2Fdscho%2Fmingw-getcwd-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-54/dscho/mingw-getcwd-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/54 -- gitgitgadget
